Ludvig

I'd like to Mirror Trikks suggestions except for the Guardian as a damage dealer. Min dmg 1 ignoring armour is still doing 1 dmg. 

I have used both the Peacekeeper and Pathfinder successfully. The Peacekeeper also gives some staying power, I hate when my whole crew melts away which happens a lot with Lucius. The pathfinder is very often targeted by the enemy missiles and dead turn 1 or early turn 2 but if you are a better strategist than me you might be able to keep him alive and he is really scary. I usually don't bother with keeping him near Dashel since the 0 focus conflicts with summoning Traps who can be used as SS for Lucius or mess with enemy charges and scheming. Instead I do 1 focused shot from Lucius ordering him and one from his own APs which can usually put a dent in stuff. Dashel also tends to get benched if you bring the Peacekeeper since you run out of stones far too fast.

Wow, all of those look stunming and the and the phosphorous colour is genious!

Druso: Defining terrainn is always done according to player taste at the beginning of the game so this isn't more house ruly than the usual setup. Just divide the table inte enclosed rooms where the walls can't be flown over and clearly agree about what can be flown ove and you are golden ;)hmm, looking closely at the enclosed trait I will tell you I have never played it vorrectly, I still let models use unimpeded even if they started in a building etc. Can I ask why you wouldn't want to houserule?

I'd say you take 1 dmg but if you can't charge you just carry on with business. You can always cheat away rams on the first attack, especially since he has bayou two-card.think it will be hard to position them to not be able to charge but practice makes perfect! A lot of gimes you can probably just charge something so close that you can still take your last attack(s) at the original target after hotting the new one.

As promised, here come my traps on city bases, hope you enjoy!

If you use premade bases you could probably just add a few flying stones to make it look like they are bursting out of the street or do what I did, stones aren't that hard to copy.

Posted here since the discussion came up here. Sorry for that zFiend, I know how you hate meandering threads

Depensing on your budget you could put something from bushido on a dawn serpent! Or use a multiple from a minionbox that you rarely have three of in games on McCabes horse.

Look at candy with fears given form. Now look again

Can't edit my post because the new forums shows my text white on white while writing but Nix as in outcasts before you ask.

Auras to use it on depends on what your enemy likes to bring. I started to like it after disabling sebastians poison hell aura and think it could really help against gremlins and Nic who like to bunch up and then be immune to blasts, well no more immunity but you are stull bunched up for Sonnia.

Trikk: I have traps on cobblewtones, did a few stones on the edgea of the dirt so it looks like they just broke tvrough. Unfortunately I'm on vacation so can't post pics but if you like I can do it next week.

@zFiend. Looking really good!!! Can't wait to hear and se more.

There's also the usual "only 2 mercs" stopping you from having tvem all as just normal mercs.

Arcanists have a lot of other models with HtK that usually get healed up from that threshold so it might be worth taking most of the time. As a general note though I agree wholeheartedly thatthe guild upgrades suck so bad it almost makesme cry when reading through the book and seeing what the other factions get. :,(

The discard part is nice to have against Gremlins and other frequent healers. I aldo counsel you to read up on the wordibgs of Hamelin'sLure of empriness, Colette's Death Defying and . Lot's of summonees also like to heal their stuff. (Sorry for spelling, can't read while writing)

Looking good! Very cartoony!

Crap! We need to lock this forum for filthy ressers!

Nico would aldo be fun. All we need is the ability to take vodoo dolls somehow. I siggest Zoraida as a triple faction Gremlins/Nvb/Guild for next ed

On a more serious note you can use it against the lost love if someone playing Kirai tries to spread out. No more Ikiryo!

Love dampening Sebastian a bit! Also any chatty models.

Too bad it doesn't work against masters, that eould be totally balanced!

Yup, that would seem reasonable. What are you cooking up dgraz?!

Remeber that you sometimes need/want to stand on them so making them too elaborate and especially tall can get tricky.

I don't play gremlins but have printed the faction emblems scanned from the books and placed them on 30mm markers for my markers. Beer cans or broken whiskey bottles could be fitting and won't get too tall on the base.

I think the traps are for tate filthy trick to grab squat markers through the austringers since they can deploy from the shadows.

@ Myyrä: Nice list, I'll have to try that. I guess you don't really make new friends with it?

@ PanzerHarris: Great ideas! As for stacking burning you can also try the Doppleganger (Lucius specific of course) with Sam to get to 12 burning without Sam activating. Not sure if that trick is considered novel, the doppleganger + whatever seems like staple Lucius.

Do they have to be successful? Are you thinking of a particular master?

I have several times tried to play Lucius using exclusively non-construct guardsmen. I rarely see that kind of theme list discussed here.

The "everyone has finish the job" can also be fun!

I mostly play achievement games in leagues arranged by the local henchman so things like not killing a single enemy model or killing 2-3 models with a single attack or having the entire enemy crew paralyzed etc. are frequently goals in our games. He also tries to have crew composition achievements and stuff like choosing schemes at random after crew selection or letting your enemy pick your schemes. Playing a borrowed crew was also an achievement. We switch goals every four weeks. Keeps the game interesting and makes you build very different lists and think outside the box!

Sonnia doesn't need better Df or getting pushed out of melee when you play? Please let me play your regular opponents!

If Sonnia is engaged and a Witchling has set the aggressor on fire Samael does better damage, otherwise Francisco has the same damage track but one higher severe and a better Ml stat last time I checked.

I'm with Dirial.
 
Is she in terrain - yes. is she moving - yes. Has he moved through any part of the battlefield considered terrain during this charge - yup. 
 
The Rise up action seems to be worded in a very unusual way to make this interaction even clearer.

As to moving through terrain or not...

General wording for movement (p42):

"Moving through severe terrain costs double the distance moved."

If we take this to mean the literal meaning of "moving in one side and out the other side" (the literal meaning, google "through definition") then almost no one would ever be affected by severe terrain so I think we have to be liberal with the meaning of through in all contexts of malifaux.

If lilith isn't counted as moving through it, then any other model the aura is centered on won't have it's movement reduced since it isn't moving "through" terrain, only moving within terrain that counts as severe... Seems weird to me.

Like Asrian, I often use a lot of obeys. With the addition of Mimic's blessing available to all our hitters I just can't refuse to shove big models (backed by waldgeists) down my enemy's throat turn 1.

Back on topic

If Chiaki is the only ancestor she is vulnerable herself - it almost doesn't matter which trigger you get on the nurses meds, she won't be removing conditions. If she has friendly ancestors you can try to put models between them since her abilities require LoS.

Haven't tried it but a beckoner could lure her out of position or probably kill her reasonably fast. If she gets brilliance on chiaki you can follow up with illuminated who have decent damage even after halving it You can also steal enemy cast actions with obey to make her wary of her own crew.